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Author : Beulah Hope Swigart
Release : 1941
Genre : America
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Book Synopsis The Americas as Revealed in the Encyclopédie by : Beulah Hope Swigart
Download or read book The Americas as Revealed in the Encyclopédie written by Beulah Hope Swigart. This book was released on 1941. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Release : 1993
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Legend and Lore of the Americas Before 1492 by : Ronald H. Fritze
Download or read book Legend and Lore of the Americas Before 1492 written by Ronald H. Fritze. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia tells of the Americas before Columbus's landing.
Author : Andrew S. Curran
Release : 2019-01-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by : Andrew S. Curran
Download or read book Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely written by Andrew S. Curran. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book of the Year – Kirkus Reviews A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world’s first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity–for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot’s most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire. In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderot’s tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.
Author : Phil Kovinick
Release : 1998
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West by : Phil Kovinick
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West written by Phil Kovinick. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia is a biographical dictionary of some 1,000 women artists of the American West. The product of a twenty-year, coast-to-coast research project by authors Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, it offers accurate, concise introductions to women painters, graphic artists, and sculptors, all of whom achieved recognition as depictors of Western subjects between the 1840s and 1980. Their styles range from representationalism to early modernism, while their works depict everything from bold landscapes and scenes of intensive action to studies of Native Americans, pioneers, ranchers, farmers, wildlife, and flora. Each entry in the encyclopedia features the salient facts of the artist's life and career, with attention to her work with Western subject matter. Many of the entries also contain a selected list of the artist's exhibitions, current locations of her work in public collections, pertinent references, and a black-and-white example of her work. An overview of the history of women in western art complements the biographical entries.
Author : Mark G. Spencer
Release : 2015-02-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment by : Mark G. Spencer
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment written by Mark G. Spencer. This book was released on 2015-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference work on one of the key subjects in American history, filling an important gap in the literature, with over 500 original essays.
